Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda tells his former teacher, Alex Fernandez, about his clever money-making endeavors as a kid in Chicago's Little Village.
After the difficult experience of helping integrate a Tennessee high school in 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver remembers succeeding in spite of some teachers, and because of others.
Cole Phillips lost his vision just months before starting high school. As a freshman, he met paraprofessional Rugenia Keefe — or Miss Ru — who attended class with him for the next four years. Shortly before graduating, Cole interviewed Miss Ru using StoryCorps Connect.
Aaron remembers when he first shared with his teacher, Celeste-Davis Carr, that he was homeless.
